The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-03-11
Mud and Anti.-Mud--Woman's
Rights.
Communicated.


Communicated.
MR.. EDIToR:-No subject has been agit-
tated of local character in your columns
lately-perhaps neyer-that has gone so
straight into the hearts of our towns-people
and agitated the minds of everyone who has
occasion to come to our borough, as the
subject of mud and anti-mud" as you so
aptly put ii, inv olying, our Streets--Streel-
Crossings-Town Debt-Corporate TaS-
ation-Tree Clipping-and Borough Com
missione1s.
1t was timely presentation of the mat
ter in your issue of the 26th ultimo under
the caption of (''Mud or Taxes Which,"
by Taxpayer" (H?) that was the sounding
of the keynote of what the public was
ready to sing and ther in your issue of the
4th inst 81. H." most appropriately took
up the strain, while almost our entire
people Joined in the cho rus of the Battle
OF the (Public.)"
| Do not laugh when woman comes upon
the scene-we the women -ought to he heard.
We can't vote but we can pay taxes and
have to do tive can't (perhaps we can
be town commissioners but we can and do
own property-We can't stay in doors al
ways but We walk your streets and cross
your dirty filthy crosslngs-We can't wear
gum boots Conveniently but we can wear
gum shoes and they are no use-We can't
ride on horse back or in sulkeys (some of
us can't and yet we can't 60 in carriages
comfortably now, hence we are aroused on
the sub bject-ashamed of our feet and tired
trailing our walking dresses always made
short across streets a foot deep-at least
twelve inches-being impossible to go
around looking genteel, then is it not high
! time we are accorded hearing, and we ask
for information. Who are our Town Com
missioners? Where! Oh Where! Shall we
find them? Are they in town now? Do they
reside here?
The writer owns property, pays taxes,
the amnt. compares favorably. and we
come out in your columns to protest against
this ill-timed, narrow minded, mistaken
economy. AS Philadelphians met in body
to protest against legislation for the Bosses
of the street car lines, so let us meet in the
Public Hall and enter protest. Let US meet
now while good sample of mud is with Us.
We can't wait until the Hall is even fixed
up by the ''Anti- Dancing" proprietors
1--WE would like to patronize them too) and
we must not wait until the dust raises on
our streets to blind our vision on the "mud
question:" but now, now is the accepted tia.e
| will venture a suggestion. Nominate a
full ticket, all females, they will all be anti
mud men, and if elected, the new Queens
will make new rules" and they will be
something like these.
1st. No debt less than $4,000 will be con.
sidered. End. No ''Shylock" wanting more
than per cent need apply. 3rd. No take.
shall be laid under mill rate. 4th. NJ
man-traps Of VIZ ks shall be laid. 5th. No
chances shall be left open for law suits fol
GanlaSeS. OLn. NO street IN the Town bu
shall have a thickly set row of naples OF
each side including the street to the depot
7th. No trees always beautifully shall be
cut or trimmed more than half away. Sth
No expenditures unless an honest dolla
earns dollars worth. 9th. No short hour
on the public works an full wages for goo
g work well done. 10th. No slaughter house
hog-pe1s Or filthy drains tolerated tina
. breed disc ase and death. 1lth No tele
h graph lines running through the street,
h 18th. Nothing in short but what is good.
p This may seem to some as has been sal
"that we want to show ourselves" but q
any rate it meets the demand of the hou
q and keeps time with the beat of the publ
f heart and he or she who ia not in aocor
with this way Of thinking is a FOSSIL an
' ready for the shell.